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THE MOST CRITICAL NEED of the Church at this moment is men –the right kind of men, bold men. The talk is that we need revival,that we need a new baptism of the Holy Spirit – and God knows wemust have both – but God will not revive mice. He will not fill rabbitswith the Holy Spirit.

We languish for men who feel themselves expendable in the warfareof the soul because they have already died to the allurements of thisworld. Such men will be free from the compulsions that control weakermen. They will not be forced to do things by the squeeze ofcircumstances. Their only compulsion will come from within – or from above.

This kind of freedom is necessary if we are to have prophets in ourpulpits again instead of mascots. These free men will serve God andmankind from motives too high to be understood by the rank and fileof religious retainers who today shuttle in and out of the sanctuary.They will make no decisions out of fear, take no course out of a desireto please, accept no service for financial considerations, perform noreligious acts out of mere custom, nor allow themselves to be influencedby the love of publicity or the desire for reputation.

Much that the church – even the evangelical church – is doing today,it is doing because it is afraid not to do it. Ministerial associations takeup projects for no higher reasons than that they are scared into it.Whatever their ear-to-the-ground, fear-inspired reconnoitering leadsthem to believe – or fear – the world expects them to do, they will bedoing come next Monday morning with all kinds of trumped-up zeal andshow of godliness. The pressure of public opinion calls these prophets,not the voice of Jehovah.

The true church has never sounded out public expectations beforelaunching its crusades. Its leaders heard from God and went aheadwholly independent of popular support or the lack of it. They knewtheir Lord’s will and did it, and their people followed them – sometimesto triumph, but more often to insults and public persecution – and theirsufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world.

Another characteristic of the true prophet has been love. The freeman who has learned to hear God’s voice and dared to obey it has feltthe moral burden that broke the hearts of the Old Testament prophets,crushed the soul of our Lord Jesus Christ, and wrung streams of tearsfrom the eyes of the apostles.

The free man has never been a religious tyrant, nor has he sought tolord it over God’s heritage. It is fear and lack of self-assurance that hasled men to try to bring others under their feet. They have had someinterest to protect, some position to secure, so they have demandedsubjection from their followers as a guarantee of their own safety. Butthe free man – never. He has nothing to protect, no ambition to pursueand no enemy to fear. For that reason he is completely careless of hisstanding among men. If they follow him – well and good. If not, heloses nothing that he holds dear. But whether he is accepted orrejected, he will go on loving his people with sincere devotion, andonly death can silence his tender intercession for them.

Yes, if evangelical Christianity is to stay alive, it must have men again –the right kind of men. It must repudiate the weaklings who dare notspeak out, and it must seek in prayer and much humility the comingagain of men of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.God will hear the cries of His people as He heard the cries of Israel inEgypt, and He will send deliverance by sending deliverers. It is His way.

And when the deliverers come – reformers, revivalists, prophets – theywill be men of God and men of courage. They will have God on theirside because they are careful to stay on God’s side. They will beco-workers with Christ and instruments in the hands of the Holy Spirit.Such men will be baptized with the Spirit indeed and through theirlabors He will baptize others and send the long-delayed revival.

Any time the Government is your source of rights, your rights are contemptible things that can be vacated at a whim. In the case of France vs. Apple, the state is in effect saying that you have no right to your property (intellectual). France is a true democracy.

That is why true rights are "inalienable", derived from God rather than the State. The most significant being the right to Property.

Vox Day again shows his insight in an area that seems to invisible to most people indoctrinated in popular economics.

Slaves may have some freedoms, but they are still slaves. What’s more important than security (a question that seems to be popping up everywhere – especially my workplace now-a-days) along with prosperity? How about Liberty.

All it takes is deep-pockets and some bozo will try to join the victim club. When will people learn that they can’t (and should not) be rewarded for their own ignorace and stupidity. I guess it will be when Judges and juries stop rewarding them.

I was 15 when Star Wars frist hit the big screen, and already a HUGE sci-fi fan. I remember the excruciating wait for the 7 months before it was released, and (way before the Internet) getting every magazine that even hinted info.

A couple of my friends (all of us were total geeks) dressed up in Star Trek garb, somehow thinking it would make the experience even better… but there was nothing that could prepare us for that first space battle scene. It rocked our world.

In all, I went to 13 theater showings that first year. It exceeded every expectation, and literally made that year bearable. Thanks George!